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NO. 472,226. Ptend Apr. 5, 1892.

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STATES 4ATENT OFFICE,

MILES E. RAY, OF TOLEDO, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO EDWARD L. FORD,OF SAME PLAOE.

HYDROCARBON-BURN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of etters Patent No. 472,226, dated April 5,1892.

Application filed October 19, 1891. Serial No. 409,163- (No model.)

.To all witam it may concern:

Be it known that I, MILES E. RAY, of Toledo, county of Lucas, and Stateof Ohio, have invent-ed certain new and useful Improvements inHydrocarbon-B urncrs; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to thefigures of reference marked thereon, which form part of thisspecification.

My invention relates to a hydrocarbonburner, and has for its object toprovide a burner for domestic purposes, wherein there shall be economyof construction, adaptability to stoves of any character, a maximumamount of heat from a minimum supply of hydrocarbon oil, and an entireabsence of noise during combustion of the same.

A further object is to provide means for obviating the usual fiuctuationin the supply of gaseous fuel to the burner-pipe by arrangingsupplemental reservoirs for a supply of the gaseous fuel incommunication with the burner-pipe, whereby a uniform pressure may bemaintained.

The invention consists in the parts and combination of parts hereinafterdescribed, and pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a complete burner. Fig.2 is a longitudinal Vertical sectional view. Fig. 3 is a top plan viewwith the defiector removed. Fig. 4 is a transverse section on lines ccoc, Fig. 1.

Heretofore in the branch of the art to which my invention belongs therehas been avarying or fluctuatin g of feed the vapor fuel to the burner,due to an intermittent feed of oil to the vaporizer. It is the object ofmy inventionto obviate this diftlculty by providing reservoirs for thevapor fuel, whereby there is insured an even supply of the same to theburner. There has also been an annoying noise during combustion, due toan absence of equilibrinm between the escape of the products ofcombustion and the supply of air to the combustion-chamber. Thisobjection is entirely overcome by my arrangement of airports, wherebythe air is received both above and below the burner-pipe, and by anadaptability of adjustment of the defiector-pla-te, whereby the escapeof the products of combustion is equalized With relation to theairsupply and the supply of fuel to the burnerpipe.

l designates a shell, preferably comprising a bottom and sides formedintegral, with the sides inclining outwardly from the bottom, therebeing projections 2 on each end, perforated to receive rods 3,screw-threaded upon their upper ends and provided with nuts 4110adjustably sustain a deflector-plate 5, formed with depending fianges 6at each end to defiect the products of combust-ion from impinging uponthe sides of the stove in which the shell is placed.

Within shell 1 is arranged a coil of pipe 7,

,leading from a source of supply of oil to a burner-pipe 8 of T shape,arranged centrally of the shell and having orifices 9, through which thegaseous vapor escapes and islighted, there being air-ports 10 formed inthe shell, extending above and below pipe 8, whereby air is admittedaround the burner-pipe in direct alignment with the orifices at whichcombustion takes place.

` At the outer ends of pipe 8 are secured reservoirs 11, which extendvertically from the pipe to avoid an accumulation of any tarry orunvaporized matter, which are designed to receive and store a quantityof the fuel vapor with sufficient pressure to cause the same to flow toorifices 9 should the feed of oil diminish or cease in its flow, wherebythere is maintained an even feed at the burner-oritices.

In operation, to start an initial fire, cock 12 is opened to allow oilto fiow through the coil and out of orifices 9 into the bottom of theshell when it is lighted, and cock 12 being closed the oil in the coilis quickly vaporized, causing the vapor to issue through the orifices,where it is lighted, and the products of combustion rising heat the coilsuticiently to allow of opening the cock 12 and admitting a constantfeed of oil to-the burner. Deflector plate 5 is now adj usted to theproper height by screwing nuts 4 either up or down until the plate isthe proper distance from the top of the shell to allow the products ofcombus- IOO tion to escape with a Volume eoineident with the feed of oiland air and Without the disagreeable noise nsual in burners of thischaracter. As soon as the Vaporizingeoil has become snfliciently heatedto vaporize the oil the Vapor passes to the orifiees and into thereservoirs 11, where a qnantity is always present to supply the demandat the burner-orifiees should the fioW of oil eease or diminish, therebypreventing fiuctuation of the fiarne. I may also construet the shell andvaporizingeoil in eireular form, to adapt the same to theeombnstion-ohanlber of eireular stoves.

That I elaiin is- In a hydrooarbon-bnrner, a shell oompristwo witnesses.

MILES E. RAY. 1ivlf'tnesses:

WILLIAM WEBSTER, EDWARD L. FORD.

